Title Poison powder : the Kepone disaster in Virginia and its legacy / Gregory S. Wilson

Published Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 236 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Environmental history and the American South Environmental history and the American South. Contents Introduction -- The James River before Kepone -- Hopewell, Allied, and the Beetle Battles -- The Kepone Shakes and a Poisoned River -- Biocitizenship and Accountability -- A Crime against Every Citizen -- Kepone and the Environmental Management State -- The Present and Future of Kepone -- Epilogue Summary "In 1975, workers at a small makeshift pesticide factory in Hopewell, Virginia became ill after exposure to Kepone, the brand name for a powdered version of the poison chlordecone. News of a few ill workers led to the discovery of mammoth, widespread environmental contamination of the nearby James River and the larger landscape of the small, working-class town. Dumping of the chemical had been going on for years. Workers at the plant-a converted gas station that seems to have ignored safety regulations-had been breathing in the dust for more than a year. The chemical made their bodies seize and shake. Aspects of this environmental tragedy are all too common: corporate avarice, ignorance, and regulatory failure, along with politicization of science, condescending experts, racism, and classism. The impact was not only in Hopewell, but also on the far away fields where Kepone was used to combat insects. In this book, Gregory Wilson explores the conditions that put the plant and the workers there in the first place, and the effects of the poison on the people and natural world long after 1975"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 04, 2023) Subject Allied Chemical Corporation -- History SUBJECT Allied Chemical Corporation fast Subject Chlordecone -- Toxicology -- Virginia -- Hopewell -- History Chlordecone -- Toxicology -- History Chlordecone -- Environmental aspects -- Virginia -- Hopewell -- History Chlordecone -- Environmental aspects -- West Indies, French -- History Pesticides industry -- Environmental aspects -- Virginia -- Hopewell -- History Pesticides -- Government policy -- United States -- History Environmental health -- United States -- History Environmental justice -- United States -- History Pesticides industry -- Environmental aspects Pesticides -- Government policy Environmental justice Environmental health Chlordecone -- Toxicology Chlordecone -- Environmental aspects Virginia -- Hopewell United States Lesser Antilles -- West Indies, French Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022037313 ISBN 9780820364032 0820364037 0820363499 9780820363493

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